US Foreign Aid Analysis

This is an exploratary analysis on foreign aid provided by USA.This aid given by the United States to other countries to support global peace, security, and development efforts, and provide humanitarian relief during times of crisis. It is a strategic, economic, and moral imperative for the United States and vital to U.S. national security.

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Which country gets the highest US aid

• More than 50% of the aid goes to 3 countries i.e Afghanistan, Israel, Iraq.
• Afghanistan and Iraq are likely due to the war and conflicts for a long time and nation rebuilding.
• Not sure on the aid to Israel.
• Pakistan is in the top 5 countries that takes aid for US.

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• Middle east and Africa are the top regions where the aid is sent. Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Israel are all in middle east.
• Interestingly, none of the African countries are in the earlier top 5 chart.

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• Most of the middle east and Africa will fall in the low income category.
• Interesting to see even high income countries are getting aid from USA, will analyze what sort of groups aid such countries.

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• Department of Defense (DoD), the constant character in all the Hollywood action/war movies.

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• India shows a spike during late 1950’s till 70’s. This is likely due to post India independence era.
• Pakistan is showing the spike at the same time but continues to show an ever increasing trend.
• Interesting to see that India never crossed the billion mark while Pakistan is consistently >1B since year 2000